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ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF HIGH GAS PRICE ON AN EFFICIENCY

Goncharuk, Anatoliy G. - In: Journal of Applied Management and Investments 2 (2013) 1, pp. 58-67

The paper presents the results of study of the efficiency of Ukrainian gas distribution system after increasing the …

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Conditional Cooperation With Negative Externalities – An Experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2012

, reciprocity or efficiency seeking. Only guilt aversion can rationalize our findings, with guilt being most pronounced if the …

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Upgrading to Compete: Global Value Chains, Clusters, and SMEs in Latin America

Artola, Ner; Zepeda, Eduardo; Lastres, Helena; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Globalization poses the imperative for firms to link with other actors and find new ways to interact and learn from the relationship. Employing original empirical evidence and featuring new case studies from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Nicaragua, Upgrading to Compete shows that the form of...

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The Relationship between Abnormal Returns and Social and Environmental Responsibility: An Empirical Study of Companies Traded on the Bovespa from 1999 to 2006

Nossa, Valcemiro; Cezar, Jesuína Figueira; Junior, … - In: Brazilian Business Review 6 (2009) 2, pp. 117-131

This article investigates the relationship between abnormal returns and the social and environmental performance of companies listed for trading on the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) that regularly publish a social balance sheet according to the model proposed by the Brazilian Institute of...

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Accounting for Context: Separating Monetary and Social Incentives

Bergh, Andreas; Wichardt, Philipp C. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper proposes a simple framework to model social preferences in a game theoretic framework which explicitly separates economic incentives from social (context) effects. It is argued that such a perspective makes it easier to analyse contextual effects. Moreover, the framework is used to...

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Democracia en América Latina apert ura económica, populismo y crisis

Echeverría, Rodríguez; Ángel, Miguel - In: Revista de Ciencias Económicas 29 (2011) 01

After 1979, Latin America adopted broadbased reforms, abandoning import substitution industrialization for an export oriented development strategy and simultaneously adopting democratic forms of government. The new economic policies of open trade, balanced public budgets, monetary orthodoxy,...

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Análise de Eficiência das Empresas Agrícolas do Pólo Petrolina/Juazeiro Utilizando a Fronteira Paramétrica Translog

Barros, Emanoel de Souza; Costa, Ecio de Farias; … - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 42 (2004) 4

fruit production is the dominant production. Therefore, this study analyzes technical efficiency of agricultural enterprises … significant efficiency scores. The comparative analysis among main irrigation areas shows that most of the efficient firms are …

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Fatores Associados à Eficiência Técnica e de Escala das Cooperativas Agropecuárias Paranaenses

Souza, Uemerson Rodrigues de; Braga, Marcelo José; … - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 49 (2011) 3

The present paper analyzes the scale and the technical efficiency of the agricultural cooperatives in the Paraná state …, and identifies the factors that are related with their efficiency. The methodology is based on Data Envelopment Analysis … small ones. The main factors that influence the efficiency are own capital (equity) and smaller payment periods. In …

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Mercados Futuro e à Vista de Açúcar: uma análise empírica de eficiência versus arbitragem

Silva, Roseli da; Takeuchi, Rodrigo - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 48 (2010) 2

This study tests the relative efficiency hypothesis of future and spot sugar markets for two forecast horizons, as … methodology for analyzing the relative efficiency in the sugar markets, as opposed to arbitrage hypothesis, and generate weak …

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Measurement of Effectiveness, Efficiency and Quality in Public Sector Services: Interventionist Empirical Investigations

Hookana, Heli - Fakulteta za Management, Univerza na Primorskem

This study aims to catch the nature of the discourse of effectiveness, efficiency and quality in the wider context of … organisations can achieve effectiveness and efficiency in delivering services and outcomes of high quality. The study offers three …

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